Tibetan script

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"The two seed syllables HUM and BHYO evoke the union of the masculine and feminine dharma-protection principles." Chögyam Trungpa

The illustration shows six variations of the Uchen script style 'heading' character. © Tashi Mannox 2010 1, single. 2, double. 3, treble. 4, resembling water birds. 5, owl eyes 6, an elaboration using two 'Ha' syllables. On every beginning of a Tibetan page of text or title is found the characteristic swirl symbol, this is known as the ‘heading’ character, its job is to announce the start of the text it prefixes. It is not a word as such but a symbol, which is as much decorative as…

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A resource for visualising and calligraphy of Buddhist mantras and seed syllables. The long awaited print version of the popular Buddhist mantra website: visiblemantra.org. This is a celebration of the visual forms of mantra and other varieties of sacred speech, drawing on Buddhist traditions from India, China, Japan, and Tibet. The book includes all the mantras from the website, plus a few more. Each is presented in four scripts: Siddhaṃ (Bonji 梵字), Lantsa (aka Rañjana), Devanāgarī…

Phags-pa script: In 1260 Kublai Khan commissioned a Tibetan Lama called Blo-gros rGyal-mtshan, who is better known by the title Phags-pa Lama, to create a new national script to replace the Uighur-based script, which was devised in 1208. An edict was issued in 1269 requiring the use of the new script in all official documents, along with the local script as appropriate. (...)

བོད་ཡིག་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐོར། དབུ་ཅན་དང་དབུ་མེད། A sample of a woodblock print showing both Uchen and Lantsa Sanskrit, the original script style of the Buddhist manuscripts of India in the 6th century. Perhaps the most well known Tibetan script style in the West is the classical Uchen script དབུ་ཅན། recognisable by it's distinct angular appearance, especially in the straight heads of the letters that align horizontally; from which the rest of the letter hangs down from. The name Uchen translates…